JUPIN v. KASK


447 Mass. 141 (2006)

JOANNE D. JUPIN, administratrix, & another v. SHARON KASK.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

June 30, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas L. Fox for Joanne D. Jupin.

June A. Harris for the defendant.

Dennis A. Henigan, Elizabeth S. Haile & Daniel R. Vice of the District of Columbia, Daniel C. Swanson & Clifford J. Zatz, for The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.


Worcester.

CORDY, J.

On May 10, 1999, Jason Rivers (Jason), a young adult with a history of violence and mental instability, shot and fatally wounded Officer Lawrence Jupin of the Westminster police department during a foot chase. Jason had obtained the handgun with which he killed Officer Jupin from the home of Sharon Kask (Kask), where his father, Willis Rivers (Rivers), and Kask resided. Kask owned the home. Rivers owned a sizeable gun collection, which...

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